Re: Could not connect to SMTP host

> You can't. Hits logging is not yet implemented.
> 

On the other hand it is super-easy to do your own logging. Just edit
the  "log.configuration.xml" file sligthly and then create the log by
e.g. a Perl script. If you also want to get the names of the public
users you can add your own entry-page to catch that.

Step 1: Change the time stamp in the logging so that date is added:
"ConversionPattern" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} (%t) [%p:%c{2}
-- %m]%n"

Step 2: Change the value of "PXRequestLog" to priority value="debug".
Set all others to "error" to get smaller log files.

Step 3: Create a HTML page with a form (I use First name, Last name,
Email) which users are required to fill in before they can be
redirected to your Pixory site. Add the name and email as parameters
to the Pixory HTTP request (e.g.
http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8081?firstname=AAAA&lastname=BBBB&email=CCCC)
so that this info will be in the log file.

Step 4: Create a small script which parses through the log files and
extracts whatever you want to know. I find it easiest to let the
script produce an HTML page with the following information for each
user accessing Pixory:

2004-09-15 14:00:30 [194.xxx.yyy.24]  Firstname Lastname Email

Album name

Then follows all pictures that user has viewed. I let the HTML page
point to the smallest thumbnails (75 pixels) for pictures only viewed
in "thumbnail mode", and point to the larger 150 pixel thumbnail for
pictures which the user actually viewed separately. 

2004-09-16 14:00:30 [194.xxx.yyy.24]  Firstname Lastname Email

Album name

Pictures...


Then I just use my browser to actually "watch" the pictures my user
watched. I have used this method since Pixory 2.12, and it works good
enough for me. Of course I cannot stop anyone from filling in a fake
name, but that has rarely been any problem.

A sligth drawback is that if more than one user is looking at the
pictures at the same time, and both users have the same IP address
(typical my collegues at my company) it will not be possible to know
exactly who is watching what picture. 

I also use the "entry page" to say some words about my picture site
(usual disclaimers etc.), plus warn that my server is not always
running. To avoid that people create bookmarks directly to my Pixory
site I let the entry page open Pixory in a new window without any
toolbar info (e.g.
toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes).
I also use cookies to remember their form input to make next access
easier for them (and thus encourage that the form is filled-in every
time).

Joe, if you are going to implement some kind of user logging, then you
could consider the following scheme to handle public user tracking:

Specify a number of "special parameters" which can be added in any
http request in Pixory. E.g. "pixory1, pixory2, ..., pixory5". If any
of these parameters are found in the http request, then Pixory should
keep adding the same paramaters to all subsequent http requests.

In this way it would be very easy to trace individual accesses, even
when made by public users. I can catch the names by a form, and then
send in the parameters the same way as I do today. If this was
implemented there would no longer be a problem with users behind the
same proxy.

/Gunnar





 
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